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Then, WGH found its mojo and rolled past the Fighting Irish in the first game for both teams, 71-52.

The Raiders, which were down 12-11 late in the first quarter, scored the final four points of the first en route to a 22-3 run that spanned most of the second quarter. By that point, the Raiders held a 33-15 advantage and never looked back.

"Because we're not very big or a grind-it-out team, we're going to hit our rhythm at some point," first-year WGH coach Andy Vlajkovich said. "We hit our rhythm in the second quarter. We're a pressure-oriented team. Sometimes, teams can withstand that pressure for certain periods of time. Tonight, you noticed that we got in our rhythm a little bit."

Ursuline coach Keith Gunther said his team was not patient.

"Our intensity on defense was horrible," he said. "We didn't jump to the ball, box out and get back in transition. To their credit, that's how they got up defensively and got up in us. It caused us some problems, their strength and athleticism."

"I didn't even feel that Mik'quan had 21 tonight," Vlajkovich said. "He just played with that effort, that kind of effortless when he didn't force anything. He just scored it. We have a couple of guys that can do that. He happened to be the guy tonight."

Gunther was impressed with Dorsey.

"We thought Dorsey was a man out there - his size, his presence and his attitude," Gunther said. "His presence made a world of difference on how they competed against us."